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Davy Crockett Quotes
- "Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine."
- "Be always sure you are right - then go ahead."
- "Be always sure you're right, then go ahead."
- "Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!"
- "Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others."
- "I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me."
- "I have always supported measures and principles and not men."
- "I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty."
- "I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog."
- "I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized."
- "If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
- "It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles."
- "Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks."
- "Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them."
- "Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas."
- "The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit."
- "The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall."
- "Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever."
- "We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money."
- "We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living."
- "You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas."
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